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brundles · 15-10-2008, 11:40

At the risk of being branded a VM fanboy, I suspect it's not as simple as "we have a fix, let's apply it".

I'm not familiar with the CISCO technology involved, but it's quite likely that VM don't have the option of picking up ONLY that fix - which means more and more software they haven't tested, can't be sure of and that could bring more problems with it. It wouldn't surprise me to find that they'd have to pick up a year of bug fixes which they may or may not need but the load will still have to be verified as safe in their network.

It's entirely possible the "stand back and monitor" approach is being used to try and identify specific trouble spots that they can prioritise the fix to or use as FOA sites for the new load.

Of course the cynic in me also thinks that given the capacity issues we know VM have, a fix that can result in increased capacity usage of their network wouldn't be that high up the priority list - especially if (by standing back and monitoring) they think they can prove it only affects (or is only noticed by) 0.5% of their subscribers.

15-10-2008, 11:40	#5
brundles Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Berkshire Posts: 1,266	Re: STM bull by the techs At the risk of being branded a VM fanboy, I suspect it's not as simple as "we have a fix, let's apply it". I'm not familiar with the CISCO technology involved, but it's quite likely that VM don't have the option of picking up ONLY that fix - which means more and more software they haven't tested, can't be sure of and that could bring more problems with it. It wouldn't surprise me to find that they'd have to pick up a year of bug fixes which they may or may not need but the load will still have to be verified as safe in their network. It's entirely possible the "stand back and monitor" approach is being used to try and identify specific trouble spots that they can prioritise the fix to or use as FOA sites for the new load. Of course the cynic in me also thinks that given the capacity issues we know VM have, a fix that can result in increased capacity usage of their network wouldn't be that high up the priority list - especially if (by standing back and monitoring) they think they can prove it only affects (or is only noticed by) 0.5% of their subscribers.